Clarion 1983-03-04 Vol 58 No 20

Leo the Lion, also known unmasked as Ronna Pechacek, cheers for the basketball team from a high vantage.
Copeland/photo
Tickets total 200 in two weeks
The fine which accommpanies the ticket on the car window will bring the year's total past the current $2200.
Copeland/photo
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Mascot Leo the Lion
brings fans laughter
by JoAnn Watkins
"Little kids are scared of me
at first," said the Royal mas-cot,
Ronna Pechacek, "but
pretty soon they just hang on
me." Pechacek has worn the
outfit of "Leo the Lion" during
this year's basketball season.
Why does she dress in the
heavy costume and roam
about the gymnasium during
the games?
"I like to make people hap-py,"
she said. "It's fun to see
people's expressions." She
said it is an outlet that allows
her to do a lot of crazy things.
Pechacek does not practice
with the cheerleaders and on-ly
occasionally does a chant
with them. "I'd rather be up in
the audience with people mak-ing
them laugh," she said.
She was asked to be a mas-cot
by a cheerleader who
knew she had been a mascot
in high school. Dawn Lutton,
cheerleader advisor, said the
cheerleaders usually just con-tact
someone to be a mascot
for each sport that they think
might be interested. Lutton
said the cheerleaders raised
part of the money for the cos-tume,
purchased two years
ago. Part of the costume cost,
$325, was paid by the athletic
department and senate paid
half the cost.
"It's like doing an hour and
a half of aerobics," Pechacek
said. "You're just dripping wet
inside the costume."
Why does she continue to
be the mascot then?
"I get a satisfaction from
making people laugh," she
said. She said that when she
climbs up in the audio control
booth window about a third
of the spectators watch her
rather than the game.
"You use your arms to get
their attention and then you
can do what ever you want,"
said Pechacek. She said when
she sits in the booth window
some of her favorite things
are to pick up a hymnal and
sing or to just itch.
She directs the pep band,
shakes hands with the oppos-ing
coaches, goes up into the
crowd, gives people hugs, and
gets in the team huddles. "I go
down to the library," she said.
"It's funny because people will
really start laughing. They
don't expect to see a lion in
the library."
"It's a lot of memories,"
Pechacek said. "It's something
not everybody does."
parked as a registered member
of Bethel in a visitor's space,
or parked along the roadway,
sidewalks, or lawns of Bethel
College? Or is the car an ex-ecutor
of the well-renowned
"Bethel stop" at one of the
well-placed campus stop
signs?
If this is not the case, the
driver deserves commenda-tion.
If this is the case, the
driver probably deserves a
ticket and is likely to get one.
Almost 200 tickets were given
out during the last two weeks
of February.
"With the snow melting and
the yellow lines becoming
visible again, there is no ex-cuse
for illegal parking, so
recently we have been ticket-ing
more," said Tom Coun-tryman,
head of Bethel's sec-urity.
Countryman and five other
Bethel security guards give
out most of the tickets, yet
they are not alone. Some cam-pus
RD's give tickets, nurses
from the Health Center give
tickets to use on those who
park in their reserved spaces,
and certain off-campus RA's
or RD's give tickets to viola-tors
at Silvercrest or Foun-tain
Terrace.
Whoever writes the ticket,
one copy ends up under the
violator's windshield wiper
and the other copy finds its
way to P.E. 200, where Coun-tryman's
office is located.
"About ten percent of the
tickets will be paid here," said
Countryman. `Some tickets
are thrown out if the violator
is an unregistered visitor—
they just have to return the
ticket signed. A few further
tickets are thrown out because
of extenuating circumstances
surrounding the violations.
Most of the tickets are placed
in the Business Office for bill-ing;
next year all of the tickets
wil be paid this way," he said.
A typical ticket is five dol-lars
and if it is not paid within
seven days at P.E. 200, the
fine is normally doubled. Also,
unregistered violators who
are not visitors usually are
charged an additional six dol-lars
and twenty-five cents to
offset the two dollars the
school pays for every license
they check through the state.
The fine money is placed
into an account, which is used
for towing cars and checking
licenses. At the end of the
year the money goes into the
general account.
Last year the account held
$7900 at year end.
Currently it holds $2200, as
of the end of Jan,
by Mike Doran
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without special permit be-tween
Lake Valentine and the
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College students. Editorial opinions ore the
sole responsibility of those who write them.
Letters are welcome, and must be typewrit-ten,
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Don Copeland/photography editor
Ginger Hope/copy editor
John Clark/sports editor
Neal Bernards/editorial assistant
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Janis Johnson/editorial assistant
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John lilleberg/sports writer
Rich Whybrew/sports writer
Don Woodward/photographer
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the Clarion . march 4, 1983
editorial
Responsibility needed • • • in voicing opinions
When I came to school Tuesday evening I stopped to read
the Beef Board. As I read I came to this letter:
To whomever claims responsibility for the Clarion,
The newspaper has proven itself to be nothing more than
scratchy toilet paper. Usually I throw it away without even
wasting my eyes on this shoddy journalism. However, last issue
unfortunately caught my attention. News flash—Bethel's Starting
Seniors ... Big article. Great, they deserve recognition. They
should probably be on first page. Did anyone on the staff ever take
the time to see how many seniors are on the team? I'll give you
hint—one more than four. Perhaps the writers have never been to a
game. Agreed, the games are overpriced and not played at a central
location, still maybe someone should show up sometime.
All sarcasm aside the article was a shame. To leave off a player
who has steadily contributed for four years is foolishness. Some
guy named John Clark attached his name to the masterpiece.
Maybe someone should ask for his resignation. Better yet, maybe
somebody could keep the paper out of my PO. Thanks, 2411
I reread it.
I claim responsibility for the Clarion as editor. My name is
on it. Who is responsible for the beef? Who is PO 2411?
As we worked on the design and layout for this issue,
several people brought it to my attention that the student
who was assigned PO 2411 is not at Bethel this semester. I
checked and they were right.
Just another joker. I read the letter once more. Whoever
wrote the letter was not joking. It struck me as ironic. It is
addressed to the person responsible for the Clarion. Who is
responsible for the letter?
Why is it so difficult for us to stand up for our opinions?
We all have a right to our own opinions. If we do not want
others to know what we think we keep our views to
ourselves. If we feel strongly enough about something we
ought to be able to take the praise or the criticism—which
ever is due. Why seek anonymity, as in this case, by using a
closed PO box number?
jo ann watkins
Editor's note to whoever claims responsibility for the beef:
As your letter stated, the article was Bethel starting seniors ...
There are four starting seniors. When I proofed the story I noticed
Rich Jaeger was not included. Looking at the purpose of the article
I saw it was about starting seniors, not a tribute to seniors. There
was no intent to omit a player from the story. Jaeger is named as a
senior in the basketball team article.
John Clark, the writer, does attend the games and I can not keep
the paper out of your PO when I do not know what it is.
Can't find that special
someone?
Describe your dream guy/gal
in an ad in the Clarion!
Ads due in three weeks!
See next week's Clarion for
more details
Dear Clarion,
I am writing in response to
Peter Thomas' letter in the
Feb. 18 issue.
Although his letter on our
society's treatment of homo-sexuals
was well intentioned,
I feel it necessary to respond
to his capitulation to our so-ciety's
prevailing moral stan-dards.
•
In the first place Thomas
falsely categorized homosex-uals
as another ethnic group
such as blacks, hispanics,
Jews and so forth. The only
thing that separates homosex-uals
from the rest of society is
their "sexual preference." This
"sexual preference" happens
to be sodomy. Webster defines
sodomy as; copulation with a
member of the same sex or
with an animal . . . noncoital
and especially anal and oral
copulation with a member of
the opposite sex. Therefore,
these unnatural sex acts en-compass
everything from a
seemingly innocent Bethel
date to dogs, cats, kangaroos,
assorted other creatures,
whips, chains, leather masks,
and things so bizarre that
they are indescribable on pa-per.,
,
The point I am trying to
make is that if we accept
homosexuality as the culture
norm, then we also must legal-ize
prostitution, sex with
children and child porno-graphy,
not because of its
rightness or wrongness, but
because of its acceptability. If
you think that I am exagger-ating
the depths to which our
moral standards can decay,
take a look at Holland or
Sweden, the latter in which it
is legal to divorce one's par-ents
at age 12.
As Christians we are not to
pass judgment on others be-cause
God sees sin as sin, not
on a scale from one to ten. But
in the New Testament church,
there was no room for the
individual who lived in sin. If
he did not repent he was
throWn out. Today, society is
asking us to accept something
we know is morally wrong.
A funny thing about our
society is that we become im-mune
to moral controversy
after a few injections of it. It
is this time of the year the
American male (myself in-cluded)
eagerly awaits with
sweaty palms the annual
Sports Illustrated swimsuit
issue. Had Christie Brinckley
frolicked across the Malibu
Three representatives of
Bethel's Student Association
will attend a national conven-tion
of the American Associa-tion
of Evangelical Students
(AAES) in Orlando, FL on
March 8- 10. The convention
draws 50-75 students from 40
Christian colleges across the
nation. Dennis Fuller, Marilyn
Eliason and Steve Goodwin
will represent Bethel.
"This is the major meeting
for policy of the AAES," said
Goodwin. "Bethel is heavily
involved in the AAES because
it was a founding member in
1960. G.W. Carlson, who was
a student at Bethel then,
helped to originate the pro-gram."
These three days will con-beach
in a spandex strapless
malliot the size of a handi-wipe
(and as porous) 50 years
ago she may very well have
been treated to a neck to an-kles
chastity belt, a full-fron-tal
lobotomy and a lifetime
membership to a home called
"The Enchanted Kingdom." In-deed
the pelvic gyrating antics
of_Elvis Presley that caused
such a stir during the 50's do
seem rather tame in compari-son
to Ozzy Osborne's pigeon
and bat swallowing stage
shows.
As Christians we can no
longer accept the standards
that society imposes on us. If
we do, our children or our
children's children may wake
up one day to a nation devoid
of moral standards and of
Christianity.
Mike Nelson
Class of '82
Clarification
In Figure 1 in the Feb. 25 issue,
the tuition for continuing stu-dents
should have been listed
as $4450, rather than $4550.
The stories on board costs and
financial aid do not appear in
this week's Clarion because
necessary information was not
available before press time. If
the costs are set, the article will
be printed next week.
BSA leders
attend national
AAES event
by Neal Bernards
Christians can not accept society's patterns
by Janet Ewing
I got another invitation to a Tupperware® party today.
I'm not going.
Frankly, I'm all tupped out.
Two weekends ago I was invited to a Tupperware party. I
went to one over interim. I went to one first semester. I don't
know how many I went to last year. Too many, I guess.
What is it about plastic bowls with lids that make people go
wild?
I used to jump at the chance to go to a Tupperware party.
They always have good refreshments. They have a lot of fun
prizes for their dumb games. And Tupperware is definitely a
high-quality product.
But I'm tupped out. I've seen it all. I've played all their dumb
games. (how many different words can you spell from Tup-perware,
in how many colors does Tupperware manufacture
refrigerator bowls, etc.)
Why do people hold these parties? To win prizes. I had one
friend call me up and tell me I had to come to her Tupperware
party because she wanted a wok. Explain to me why I should
sit through some dull sales pitch, and buy a new lettuce keeper
just so- she can get a ,wok..I don't get it.
Tupperware reminds me of mothers. I have no desire to
simulate the feeling of middle age by purchasing a lifetime
supply of Tupperware at the age of twenty-one.
If the motivation to hold these parties is greed, the motiva-tion
to attend is the same. If refreshments were not offered, I'll
bet that no one would go. I know I wouldn't. Forget this
garbage about fellowship. If they don't have cookies, no one
will be there.
I'll admit that I was enthusiastic about my first couple of
Tupperware parties. I was also enthusiastic about my first
Mary Kay party. I haven't been to any Amway or Shaklee
parties. I hope they don't exist.
I come from a family that will buy a tub of sherbet and eat it
all at one sitting if we need a new refrigerator bowl.
My father doesn't believe in margarine, but since living in an
apartment I have learned that margarine tubs make great
leftover holders.
Who are these fanatical disciples of the cult of Tupperware?
From what upper-middle class suburb did they emerge?
Yes, there is life without Tupperware.
I confess to owning a lettuce keeper, a small set of wonder-lier
bowls and a shaker. They were purchased back in the days
when I felt guilty attending a party, eating a handful of
cookies, and then not buying anything. Those days are gone.
A lot of Tupperware has passed under the bridge since
then.
I just can't handle the thought of another Tupperware party
right now.
There must be more to life.
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march 4, 1983
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"Malcolm Muggridge" will
be shown Sunday, March 6 as
part of the Christian Film ser-ies
sponsored by the Campus
Coordinators. The film, which
is about Muggridge's life, will
begin at 8:30 p.m. in FA313. •• •
"Foundation" will perform
in concert on March 7, at 6 p.
m. in FA311. The group,
sponsored by the Bap Ast Stu-dent
Union, is from Carson
Newman Baptist College, in
Carson City, TN. Eight vocal-ists
and two sound techni-cians
form the group which
sings contemporary Chris-tian
music.
•• •
Don Larson, professor of
linguistics, will be a key
spokesman on the Boone and
Erickson WCCO radio show
on March 8, at 10 a.m. The
subject for discussion will be
language commmunication
and learning. Howard Hath-away,
a public school curric-ulum
coordinator in foreign
languages -, will be the fourth
discussant.
•• •
The Campus Coordinators
are selling tickets for the
DeGarmo and Key concert for
$5.50. The concert is at 7 p.m.,
March 12, at Wiley Hall at the
University of Minnesota.
•• •
"Rocky I, II, and lir will be
show in the gym on Friday,
March 11. The movies will
begin at 6 p.m. Cost is $2.50
for entrance at anytime dur-ing
the evening.
Entertainment between the
movies will be provided by
Bam-Bams Tumblers. They
are an adult group who travel
and 'present shows and the
Gospel message.
• • •
Campus Crusade for Christ
will be holding a volleyball
marathon to raise money for
those attending Operation
Sonshine '83. Individuals par-ticipating
will be seeking
sponsors to pledge an amount
for each game of volleyball
they play. The games will be
played March 13 from 1 to 8
p.m., in the gym. •• •
"Candida"—a delightful
comedy by George Bernard
Shaw—will be performed in
the round at Bethel College's
Fine Arts Theatre March 10-
12 and 15-19. Curtain time is
7:30 p.m., except for a 4 p.m.
matinee of Tuesday, March
15.
The drama centers on -the
woman Candida (played by
Kelli McNutt) who is loved
both by the poet Eugene
Marchbanks (Alan Nugent)
and by the preacher Rev. Mor-rell
(Robert Otto). This love
triangle forms a basis for look-ing
at the choices between
charisma or intellect, and pro-tection
or passion.
"Candida" is under the di-rection
of Susan Ogden-
Malouf, assistant professor of
theatre arts, assisted by senior
Scott Robertson.
•• •
Duo-pianists Barbara Brooks
and Mary Tomes will present
a faculty recital at Bethel Sem-inary
Chapel on Sunday,
March 13 at 3 p.m.
-Included in their program
are sonatas- of Mozart and
Poulenc and the "Fantasy" and
"Tarentella" by Rachmanin-off.
Barbara Brooks, instructor
in piano at Bethel and Maca-lester
colleges, is a pianist
with the Minnesota Dance
Company and organist at St.
James Lutheran Church in
Crystal. She holds a master in
music degree from the Uni-versity
of Michigan.
Mary Tomes holds a Bache-lor
of Arts in Music from
Augsburg College and works
in mental health counseling.
The conert if free and open
to all.
•• •
Cork Marcheschi is cur-rently
displaying his square
neon tubes of blue/pink, red/
yellow, and yellow/purple in
the Eugene Johnson Gallery
of Art. The display will be
held until March 11, .
by Bonnie Coleman
Three-hundred pounds of
hamburger, 380 pounds of
cheese, 75 gallons of ice cream,
1000 apples, 30 pounds of
sunflower seeds, 340 gallons
of milk and 270 dozen eggs.
Wait! Who's having the par-ty?
Has anxiety from the pre-spring
blues turned students
toward mass consumption?
No, but these are a few
items on the- Bethel food ser-vice
weekly order list, accord-ing
to Judy Helman, assistant
manager of the food service.
Items such as meat, cheese,
ice cream are delivered once a
week, while fresh produce and
bread come in every day. The
food service also makes their
own bread on Wednesdays.
"Most of the food- is con-sumed
too, not much is thrown
away," said Helman. "After
all these years in food service,
you know how much will be
used."
The coffee shop is one of
the main contributors to the
large volume of food con-sumed
by Bethel. The most
popular items are bagels,
sandwiches, ice cream and
pop.
One Wednesday's report
showed 115 plain bagels were
purchased, 20 haraand cheese •
bagels, 135 blueberry and
bran muffins, 173 scoops if
ice cream, 55 1/4-pound ham-burgers,
45 patty melts, 127
ham sandwiches, 153 orders
of fries, 100 Grandma
cookies, 204 pieces of fruit
and 865 cups of pop. Diet
Pepsi is the biggest seller.
"Mondays and Tuesdays
are the peak days," said Linda
Erickson, manager of the cof-fee
shop. "The Bethel crowd is
very unpredictable. Students
are influenced by what the
person ahead of them orders."
Heiman finds the cafeteria
AAES, see page 6
Bethelites favor pop, bagels, fries
newsbriefs
Item 12
page 4 the Clarion march,4, 1983
Twenty-one reasons to attend Bethel...
by Neal Bernards
Were you lured to Bethel by
positive brochures that hinted
at a Christian Utopia? Are
you sick of seeing all of Beth-el's
publications turn into
propaganda? Well this is the
article for you. The following
is a list of both the good and
bad of Bethel College—the
way a prospectus should look.
1. People
"Bethel is beautiful because
everyone's a Christian and
we love each other and we're
one big happy family and that
means we're blessed." Cliche.
However, the general state-ment
is true: students and
faculty at Bethel are caring
because of their common corn-mitment
to Christ. Even
though your roommates grunt
at you in the early morning
they really are concerned. The
friendships started here will
last a lifetime.
Item 2
2. Campus
Bethel's wooded plot of land
is perfect for strolling when
you're down about life. If pa-pers
and finals ever depress
you, just walk on the path
around the lake and let nature
be your remedy.
3. Chapel (see also #3 on the
bad list)
Chapel is a great forum to
hear good speakers if you hit
the right days. Topics rang-ing
from missions to politics
to alternative lifestyles are
discussed. Chapel may inter-rupt
your intense study sche-dule
but it's often worth it.
4. The Coffee Shop (see also
#4 on the bad list)
Grab a bowl of ice cream or
a cup of french fries and ex-change
social pleasantries for
an hour. The prices are reason-able,
the decor simple, and
the food is a change from the
cafeteria. It adds meaning to
the ten minute break in your
G mod class. The atmosphere
is superb for anything but
studying, making it a haven
for procrastinators and "beau-tiful
people."
5. The Royal Oak Room
The Coffee Shop's alter ego.
A nice escape from worries
inside the Bethel campus. The
price is right and the enter-tainment
good, even consid-ering
the appearance of John-ny
Cupid and the Lovetones.
6. Keith Tekautz
You know him, but you
don't know him. He's the cus-todian
with a perpetual high
on life. Everyone has heard
his boisterous greetings echo-ing
through the halls. Even in
the worst of moods you can't
help but smile.
7. Bethel's size
We've all heard horror sto-ries
of the monstrous classes
at the U of M. Instead of
classes with 150 students we
have classes of 25, allowing
for optimum interaction be-tween
teachers and students.
However, this could be a
drawback if you intended to
slide through a course.
8. Extra-curricular activities
This relates to Bethel's size
because everyone has an op-portunity
to become involved.
Crowds don't form for posi-tions
in student senate, mis-sions,
sports, publications,
music, drama, speech, Wel-come
Week, or political or-ganizations;
therefore giving
everyone an equal chance.
They let me write for the Clar-ion,
it can't be too tough.
9. Variety of people
Bethel ranks second only to
Carleton in percentage of stu-dents
from outside of Minne-sota.
This allows for a vast
array of insights and opin-ions
in class discussions.
More importantly, you can go
home with friends from Cali-fornia
or Florida over spring
break. However, it can be a
problem if you live in New
York and your boyfriend/girl-friend
is from Montana.
10. Housing
This may be a point of dis-agreement,
but I think Bethel's
housing is more than ade-quate.
Few other college stu-dents
have the luxury of
choosing between town-houses
and apartments. Our
housing is clean and new,
unlike some 100-year-old col-leges
that have 60-year-old
dorms. And if Bethel's apart-ments
are too expensive, there
are many alternatives in the
area.
11. Doc's corner
A quaint place to study,
socialize, or just enjoy a 7c
cup of coffee. The cookies are
great too.
12. Lake Valentine
Some call it Mudhole Val-entine,
but it does add a touch
of nature in metropolitan Ar-den
Hills. Sem Hill and the
dock are popular places when
the warmth of spring arrives.
The lake is used for canoing,
skating, and cross-country
skiing. It's true resources re-main
untapped however. Pub-licity
could be garnered by
staging the world's largest
broomball game or by spon-soririg
the Lake Valentine Re-lays,
where the first male-female
team to swim across,
the lake and back without
sinking in the mud, getting
caught in the weeds, or being
attacked by Canadian geese
wins.
Item 14
13. Connected buildings
Though they create a high-school
like atmosphere, the
tunnels and skyways keep us
from the nasty elements. Since
everyone is confined to four
buildings you get to see your
favorite people more often,
but this can be detrimental to
the hunted male during Nik
Dag. Also, the connected
buildings don't allow for an
excuse when late to class; you
can get anywhere in five min-utes.
14. IM sports
Former, part-time, and
weekend jocks can find their
outlet in intra-mural sports.
Broomball especially allows
for ventilation of frustrations,
if not destruction of kneecaps.
15. Meandering brook and
bridge
Only residents of Edgren
and Bodien can truly appre-ciate
the complexities of this
little aquatic world. Though
the creek is often dirt brown
and three inches deep, a
change in seasons can be
gaged by subtle differences in
these norms. And will any
sophomore forget the notor-ious
Nelson vs. Edgren/Bodien
snowball fight over posses-sion
of our beloved bridge?
Someone ought to name it.
16. Rollerskating
If you can't dance, you
might as well rollerskate. The
crowded conditions must say
something for this activity.
17. Monte Cristo's
I'm not on the meal plan so I.
haven't had this delicious
sandwich for a year, but my
mouth still waters at the
thought of its crunchy golden-brown
exterior. Especially
good with a touch of jam. .
18. The Clarion
That's supposed to be fun-ny,
o.k.?
19. Location
Bethel is located within 15
miles of seven colleges and
universities, making it possi-ble
to attend numerous sport-ing
events and cultural activi-ties.
To some students Min-neapolis/
St. Paul may not be
a metropolis, but it beats try-ing
to find something to do in
Northfield or St. Peter on a
Saturday night.
20. Interim
Few schools will give you
credit for traveling across
Europe or Mexico for a month.
Even if you stay at school it's
enjoyable because of the laid-back
atmosphere. You can
catch up on sleep or hobbies
that you forsook for studying
fall semester. And if you didn't
study fall semester, you can
try to raise your GPA during
interim.
21. Nik Dag
This Bethel tradition has
been a favorite for years. De-spite
quivering males and
scorned females Nik Dag has
remained a success. Every
year a complaint appears on
the Beefboard requesting a
ban on this activity, and every
year it is ignored. Without
this female-initiated occasion
Bethel's dating scene would
be cut in half. Besides, when
else could you see John Zdrazil
posing partially clad for the
student body in chapel?
Item 9
Item 1
Item 7
march 4, 1983 the Clarion page 5
.. ,and twenty-one reasons not to
1. Bethel Drive
Every morning brings a new
adventure to the student who
has to traverse this rutted
road on his way to wisdom. If
you're not awake when you
get on the bus you are by the
time you grind to halt at the
front steps. The trip is like a
runaway-wagon ride down
a bumpy hill. The gravel
recently spread over the holes
helped slightly, though it's the
same as putting a band-aid on
a chainsaw wound.
2. Sports facilities
The quality of athletes here
is amazing considering what
Bethel offers in athletic are-nas.
The football/soccer/base-ball
field is often muddy or
barren. The Robertson Gym-nasium/
auditorium/field-house
is overworked and
small. And the weight room
has a capacity of ten active
members. The fieldhouse will
be a great addition, when it's
built. It will be even better if
they find money to add a floor
to the structure. We know
that Bethel stresses Christian-ity
and academics over sports,
but our athletes need a chance
to become competitive in all
sports. To do that better facil-ities
are needed.
3. Chapel
Be thankful chapel is not
mandatory. Though some are
stimulating, many are tedious,
making you wish you'd stayed
in bed. Some are bad enough
to make you want to go to
11:10 class.
4. The Coffee Shop during
peak hours
The crush between after-noon
classes is reminiscient
of crowded Tokyo subways.
As is typical in any hallway,
a group of five students al-ways
seem to gather in the
busiest spot, blocking passage
on either side. Rumors that
traffic lights will be installed
have proven false.
5. The LRC
For those not fluent in
Bethelise; the library. The
books are fine, but the atmos-phere
resembles a high school
cafeteria more than a place of
study. At -the U of M you
would be tossed out on your
backpack at the slightest pro-vocation.
Another major an-noyance
is the incessant buzz
of the lights. Either Bethel has
taken up beekeeping or some
psychologist is experimenting
on how long it takes to drive
an entire student body mad.
6. Brushaber's inauguration
Some suggested that this
be under the good heading,
but they were overruled. See-ing
the dignitaries was great,
but a 50 minute speech. Come
on, the average American has
a ten minute attention span.
Watching the choir shift rest-lessly
in the background was
a painful experience.
7. Bus system
The system is run as effi-ciently
as possible, but just
the thought of riding a bus
conjures up negative images.
Also, waiting 30 minutes for a
bus on Friday afternoon seems
an eternity.
8. Parking lots
Either limit the use of cars
on campus or pave the semi-nary.
More unjust parking
tickets have been given be-cause
of inadequate space
than any other violations.
Which leads to the next
point .. .
9. RAP
Our security force, the Roy-al
Auto Patrol. Rules are nec-essary,
but let us know what
they are. Be consistent. Sit in
the cafeteria at mealtime and
count how many cars roll
through the stop sign in front
of Edgren. Either enforce the
sign or get rid of it.
10. Validation
Legend has it that is used to
be worse, I pity them.
11. III-designed writing desks
Not the big ceramic desks
or the brown flexible ones,
but the multi-colored ones
that are uncomfortable no
matter how you sit. The desk
part is too small and the seat
angled to exactly the wrong
position for anything. If you
blow a test, blame it on the
desk.
12. Lack of an auditorium
The theatre is suffocatingly
small and the Robertson PE
center cavernously large. No
production can be truly en-joyed
in either setting. Some-thing
like FA 313 about five
times larger would be perfect,
but money at Bethel is tight
like everywhere else.
13. Book buy back
Confining a line of 30 bored
people to a four foot wide hall-way
is not prudent. After an
hour of getting stepped on by
students checking their P.O.'s
you're ready to explode, es-pecially
when somebody says
your $25 biology book is now
worth $6.
14. Dorm bathrooms
If the cleaner is not a neu-rotic
health nut, odors of un-known
origins quickly devel-op.
Women's bathrooms may
be different, but our bathroom
had fungi never seen by man
growing on the shower cur-tains.
A little grime is expect-ed
with 24 people using the
same facility. It makes you
appreciate mom's sparkling
porcelain.
15. Upperclass dorms
There are none, thus creat-ing
a problem. Many upper-classmen
want to live on cam-pus,
but not in a townhouse.
The comraderie of a dorm
makes apartment and town-house
living feel like solitary
confinement. The only way to
get back in a dorm after fresh-man
year is by being an RA,
something few can do.
16. Heating
You climb out of a cozy bed
for your 8 o'clock class to be
hit by the harsh reality that
it's 60 degrees in the class-room
and your bare forearm
is frozen to the table. You
thaw over hearty lunch and
amble off to your 12:10 class.
There the heat is overwhelm-ing
so your body decides it's
time for a nap. You can't win.
Like Minnesota, it's either
summer or winter, with very
little in between.
17. Isolation
Bethel students are pain-stakingly
unaware of the
world around them. Few look
beyond their tests and papers
to see world problems that
need political and social ac-tion.
Most college campuses
have this problem, but we
should try to be different.
Everyone agrees that there is
a problem, but little is done.
The poor attendance at Arlan
Erdahl's convocation is evi-dence
of this,,, -
18. Intro to Bible
Requiring three Bible
classes is a good idea, but
Intro turned many students
off to Bible study, They dread
having to take a second reli-gion
class and are surprised
to find that it can be fun.
19. The view from Fountain
Terrace apartments facing
east
A pine tree and 35W. Exhil-irating?
Motivating? Inspir-ing?
No. Loud? Yes.
Item 20
20. Bethel's logo
What is it? Most college
emblems are identifiable, like
an animal or mascot. Ours
looks like a twisted paper
clip. Along the line of school
identity is the lack of a fight
song. We have no rallying
song to raise spirits, even
something silly like St. Olaf's
"Um ya ya" song would be
good.
21. Vacation
This is trivial, but so is
everything else on the list.
Compared to state schools we
get little vacation. Thanksgiv-ing,
Christmas, Spring Break,
and Good Friday. That's it. At
least we're getting our mon-ey's
worth.
If your list of loves and
hates is vastly different, write
it up and send it into the Clar-ion.
It may get printed. You'll
be surprised how hard it is to
come up with negative com-ments
and how the easy ones
flow. That's probably why
you didn't transfer to the U.
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Writing Center sails
in a sea of language
Pinned to a small cork bul-letin
board inside The Writ-ing
Center, a room on the
second floor of the AC build-ing,
is a small note. It reads: -
YOU'VE HEARD THIS
SONG BEFORE
1. What is this thing called
love?
2. What is this thing called?
Love?
3. What is this thing called?
Love.
4. What is this thing called?
Love!
5. What! Is this thing called
love?
6. What? Is this thing called
love?
7. What is this thing called,
love?
8. "What is this thing?" called
Love?
9. "What is this, Thing?"
called Love.
10. "What is this?"
"Thing called love."
This note shows a basic
concept: language is fluid. A
small change in a sentence
can change its entire mean-ing.
In this sea of fluid lan-guage,
finding precise mean-ing
is sometimes a difficult
task—especially with a dead-line
to meet and deep subject
matter.
food, from page 3
a little more predictable than
the coffee shop. "You learn
student routines," Helman
said. We can't predict as eas-ily
the amount of food to pur-chase
at the beginning, or the
end of the year or during
interim."
The breakfast population
slows down about the fourth
week of school while the Wed-nesday
lunch increases. "We
get about 600 to 1000 people
through for lunch, it works
into people's schedules more,"
Helman said. "The weekends
are slow because people go
home and out to eat."
The hotdishes, salad and
sandwich bar are the most
Bethel's Writing Center of-fers
assistance in the confused
sea of language. By person-ally
assisting writers in the
process of composing their pa-pers,
the ten Writing Center
tutors hope to improve the
marginal writer to compe-tence,
the competent writer to
excellence, and the excellent
writer to superiority. Even
superior writers can benefit
from having tutors in the Writ-ing
Center act as sounding
boards to their writing.
Writing Center tutors try to
be more than a proofreading
service, they attempt to help
students help themselves.
They attempt to offer con-structive
criticism from their
experience. which the writer
can accept or reject.
The Writing Center is open
Mon. through Fri. between
eleven a.m. and five p.m. It
closes for dinner, then re-opens
between 7 p.m. and 10
p.m.
Dr. Lynn Fauth of the Lan-guage
and Literature Dept.
coordinates a mostly veteran
Writing Center staff. Each
staff member's hours are post-ed
outside The Writing Cen-ter's
door.
popular in the cafeteria. "Hot-dishes
are fresh and are for
those who want to fill up on
something cheap," said Hel-man.
"We also added a new
diet menu for those who are
watching their weight."
Both Helman and Erickson
try to add new items to their
menus as much as possible. A
diet menu was added to the
cafeteria 'selection as well as
periodit !monotony-breakers
that consist of a popular food
from a different country. The
coffeeshop sometimes puts
out samples of new items to
test. student reaction.
"I think Bethel has very
good food compared to some
other schools I've been to,"
said Helman, "and the staff
tries hard here for the school."
A special guest will be Pres-ident
Ronald Reagan who will
address the convention on
Tuesday evening.
The AAES receives guid-ance
from the National Asso-ciation
of Evangelicals (NAE),
formerly headed by Carl
Lundquist. "This year we're
going to ask for more support
from the NAE," said Good-win.
"We get advice from them
but no financial aid." Each
member school pays a $125
annual due to finance AAES
functions.
Airfare and hotel accom-modations
cost for the trip
will come out of the Student
Association travel budget.
The group will spend seven
days in Orlando instead of
four because of flight arran-gements.
"It's cheaper for us
to go for a week than just four
days because mid=week
flights are expensive. We'll
actually be saving money by
staying longer," said Good-win.
"The expense is justifia-ble
because of benefits stu-dents
will receive from better
leadership. New ideas from
the convention will help the
entire student body."
AAES, from page 2
sist of workshops led by evan-gelicals
such as former mem-ber
of the Nixon administra-tion
and now leader for prison
reform, Charles Colson; leader
of the Moral Majority, Jerry
Falwell; internationally-known
evangelist Leighton
Ford and author Rebecca
Manley Pippert. Along with
over 60 others they comprise
the personnel gathered to
spread enthusiasm for shar-ing
Christ wherever the evan-gelical
calls their "world."
Goodwin plans to run for
national president of the
AAES if the current leader
resigns. "It's a two-year office
and the president has indi-cated
that he will step down
after one year," said Good-win.
"Previously he was vice-president.
He took over when
the other president resigned."
Goodwin can become presi-dent
because he will attend
seminary next year, still qual-ifying
as an evangelical stu-dent.
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Playoffs put off by power points
by Rich Whybrew
The state playoff hopes of
the women's basketball team
were dashed Feb. 21 as a
result of a 67-55 loss to St.
Olaf and the power point rat-ing
system.
Head coach Vonda Bjork-lund
said her team knew it
was a "must win" situation
against St. Olaf if the Royals
wanted to go to the playoffs,
but tried to keep the players
from putting too much pres-sure
on themselves. "We tried
to go into the game not think-ing
of it as a pressure game,"
she said. "We didn't concen-trate
on winning as much as
mbb, from page 8
23-22, but no sooner would
Bethel come close to catching
the elusive carrot that was
the lead the Johnnies would
pull it away.
It was the type of scene that
was to be repeated more than
once throughout the contest.
"Our guys never gave up,"
said Coach George Palke in
the subdued Royal lockerroom
after the game. "They gave it
all they had. 19
Jeff Blumer powers up a shot dur-ing
the Royals rout.
Copeland/photo
MIAC All-Conference
Brian lunmann Augsburg 6-1 So.
Dave Meslow Augsburg 6-6 Sr.
Bill Lawson Bettie( 6.1 Sr.
Jason Velgersdyk Bethel 6-8 Sr.
Garret Byrne Concordia 7-0 Sr.
Ricky Simpson Concordia 6-1 Sr.
Mark Hanson Gustavus 6-6 Sr.
Terry Brehn St Marys 6-4 Sr.
John Mellott St John's 6-5 Sr.
Tin Dillon St Thomas 6-3 Sr.
Ward Prine St Olaf 6-5 Fr.
Honorable Mention
Mike Hanley Bethel 6-1 Sr.
Dwayne Nordstrom Bethel 6-7 Sr.
Dion Wolter Bethel 6-7 Jr.
Jon Eide Concordia 6-7 Sr.
Kerry Nelson Concordia 6-5 Sr.
John Blew Gustavus 6-2 Sr.
Barry O'Neil Gustavus 64 Fr.
Brian Buggs Hamline 5-9 So.
Roger Stieple Hamline 6-3 Jr.
Willie Green St Mary's 5-10 So.
Trevor Burzorg St John's 6-1 Jr
John Goodrich
Sean Higgins
Rahn Hagberg
St John's
St Thomas
St Olaf
6-4
6-4
6-6
Sr.
Sr
Jr.
we concentrated on playing
well."
Three Royal players ac-counted
for all but nine of
Bethel's points, as Kim Chris-tenson
scored 21, Sharon
Huisinga had 14, and Karen
Almeroth put in 11.
The loss put the Royals
down on the power point sys-tem
far enough so St. Mary's,
whom the Royals beat during
the season 74-64, qualified for
the state playoffs. They were
.15 of a power point ahead of
Bethel in the system, which
Bjorklund explained uses the
won-loss record of a team and
its opponents to determine
how strong it is.
And they gave it more than
once.
Starting the second half
with a 39-31 lead St. fohn's
padded that margin into a 15-
point spread and it appeared
that Bethel was headed for
embarrassment. But the Roy-als
came back and with over
11 minutes to play had whit-tled
the lead to only five
points.
However, St. John's moved
back into a more comfortable
lead once again. But again
Bethel worked the margin
down to finally two points as
Mike Hanley hit a shot with
3:11 on the clock.
The Johnnies then began to
ice away the clock by stalling
forcing Bethel to foul. St.
John's made 10 of 11 free
throws in those final minutes
to account for the final margin.
"They played real good de-fense
and took away the
things we wanted to do," ex-plained
Palke. "We couldn't
get the ball inside and we
didn't get the fastbreak going
consistently."
One key said Palke was the
difference between the • two
teams at the free throw line.
St. John's made 27 of 38 foul
shots while Bethel made only
17 of 31 of its charity tosses.
"There's a million things in
a game like this that you can
look at and wish you could
change," he said.
"It's fun to get to this point,"
said Hugoson. "But you sure
would like to go farther. You
have to accept that it must be
the way it was meant to be.
We gave it our all."
"This is the third year in a
row Bethel has lost out on the
power point system," said
Bjorklund. "Our only conso-lation
is that it won't be in use
next year because we'll be
trying to qualify for the
NCAA playoffs, which is
harder."
It appears that all but one
of the members of this year's
team will be back to try quali-fying
for the NCAA playoffs,
as there were no seniors on
the team. Huisinga is the only
Royal who will not return,
since she will go to Germany
next year to finish work on
her major.
Dion Wolter led the Bethel
scorers hitting 22 points on
the night while staking out
his own territory at the foul
line. Wolter attempted 18 free
throws and made 12. Bill Law-son
hit for 13 points and
handed out nine assists.
ROYAL ROUSINGS—Despite the season ending
on a losing note it was a very successful season for the
Royals . . . Bethel was the only team to have five players
named All-Conference or Honorable Mention . . . Three
players (Dion Wolter, Bill Lawson and Jason Velgersdyk)
received player of the week honors for the MIAC . . . Law-son
and Velgersdyk led the league in assists and rebounding
and Wolter led in shooting percentage . . . In winning 17
games Bethel came one game away from tying the school
record.
weights, from page 8
and if so is it too expensive in
these days of budget cuts?
"I think it's in a poor posi-tion,"
said Athletic Director
George Henry of the weight-room
"and I realize that if it
was twice as big it still
wouldn't be big enough."
However, Henry said that
this current budget is ex-hausted
and he would be hard-pressed
to ask for more money
when the school is cutting
$1.2 'million from its budget.
And with the new weightroom
part of the phase II plans for
the fieldhouse, it is hard to
predict when that will become
a reality until phase I is com-pleted.
Henry did point out that
the current weightroom is
much better than what pre-viously
existed. Carpeting
was laid and the walls painted
and the room extended into
the wrestling room slightly to
make for a better facility.
events
That, however, was three
years ago and the weight-room's
use has grown consid-erably.
One possibility raised for
increasing space was knock-ing
out the west wall of the
room which only has dirt on
the other side. Unfortunately,
it sounds much simpler than
it really is.
According to Jim Woods,
director of the physical plant,
the wall is a poured concrete
supporting wall and would
require quite a bit of work
and money to acquire only a
small amount of space. Woods
said it could be done but it
was not practical. If the mon-ey
was available, it might be
better to build an entire struc-ture
above ground.
Some athletes, in order to
get their required workout,
have chosen to spend money
from their own pocket to
secure a membership at a fit-ness
club. It seems this might
be the only solution given the
current situation financially.
But as always a solution-less
problem has arisen that,
in this case, the athletes who
can't afford to go elsewhere
will have to learn to live with.
Friday, March 4
CC—Skating, Saint's 12-2 am.
WR—NAJA Nationals, Minor, SD
Saturday, March 5
WT—at St. Olaf
WTR—at Mocolester
MTR—St. John's Invitational
ISA Banquet, Gym, 6:30 pm.
Sunday, March 6
Bethel Choir Handel's "Messiah," Orchestra Hall,
3:00 pm.
Christian Film Series—"Malcolm Muggridge," FA313,
8:30 pm.
Monday, Mardi 7
Chapel—Rev. Cal Swanson, Argentina
Student Senate Meeting, FA 426, 5:15 pm.
B.S.U. concert—"Foundation," FA 311, 6 pm.
Tuesday, March 8
Chapel—Marilyn Bohne, Korea
Wednesday, March 9
Chapel—Hiphong Truong, Laos
Thursday, March 10
Chapel—Inter-Varsity Christian Fellavvship Films,
Hinduism/Buddhism
Theatre Production—"Candida," 7:30 pm.
Friday, March 11
Chapel—Student Chapel
Theatre Production—"Candida," 7:30 pm.
W1R—Ole Open at St. Olaf
CC—Movies: Rocky 1,11,111, $2.50, Gym, 6 pm.
Saturday, March 12
DeGarmo & Key Concert, Wiley Hall, U of M, 7 pm.
MTR—MAC Indoor at St. Thomas
Theatre Production—"Candida," 7:30 pm.
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Bethel Tommie-gunners Kevin Hugoson (left) and Dion Wolter shot away during the Royals 98-83 trouncing
fo St. Thomas. The runaway win forced the playoff against St. John's to determine the MIAC's final playoff
berth. Copeland/photo Royal roundballers knocked off
page 8
ihe Clarion march 4, 1983
sports
Women
race to
PR's
by Rich Whybrew
The women's track team
earned a few places and many
personal records in a five-team
meet at St. Thomas Sat-urday,
Feb. 26.
Linda Channer, the All-Am-erican
cross-country runner,
set a new indoor school record
in the 1500-meter run. Her
time of 4:47.6 for third place
was a personal record, and is
only four seconds slower than
the qualifiying standard for
outdoor nationals in May.
Another notable PR was
that of Jenny Burgess in the
55 meter low hurdles. She ran
9.2 for second place, leading a
Royal charge that saw Laurie
Staurseth and Kris Hartzell
take third and fifth, respec-tively,
in the same event.
Hartzell cleared 4'10" in the
high jump to tie for fifth, and
Burgess, Staurseth, Terri
Thompson and Kendra French
ran on the 1600 meter relay
team that took third in 4:28.5.
Penny Marshall continued her
steady performance in the
shot put, taking third with a
throw of 35'6".
Head coach Cindy Book
mentioned other outstanding
PR's by Carla Tromanek in
the high jump, Rachel Urban
in the 1500 meters, and Jan
Albright in the 800 meters.
"We set goals for the meet,
and everyone was just up for
it," said Book of the avalanche
of PR's.
by John Clark
Although no one can claim
the Royals ever gave up,
Bethel couldn't fill the holes it
continually dug for itself in
losing the second place playoff
gaMe to St. John's 85-71 on
Mar. 2 at St. Thomas.
The playoff game was nec-essitated
by the second place
tie the two teams found them-selves
in after the regular sea-son
had ended. With the tie-breaking
criteria the league
had set up unable to break the
tie, the league commission de-cided
to have the two schools
decide the matter on the court.
Emotions ran high on both
sides of St. Thomas' gym,
Final MIAC standings
Conference Overall
W L Pct. W L Pct.
Concordia 14 4 .778 17 8 .680
Bethel 12 6 .667 17 10 .630
St. John's 12 6 .667 15 11 .577
Augsburg* 12 6 .667 18 8 .692
St. Thomas 10 8 .556 13 13 .500
Macalester 8 10 .444 10 14 .417
Gustavus 7 11 .389 7 15 .304
Hamline 7 11 .389 9 16 .360
St. Mary's 5 13 278 8 18 308
St. Olaf 3 15 .167 4 21 .160
* on probation, ineligible for playoffs.
which was chosen as the neu-tral
site for the game. One
would have a difficult time
deciding whether the fans or
the players were more fired
up for the game that would
decide which team would go
on to face the University of
Minnesota-Duluth in the
NAIA Division 13 playoffs.
Bethel scored the first bas-ket
of the game but it would
be the only time the Royals
would ever lead again. St.
John's defense set up a run of
10 straight points that even-tually
turned into a 18-8 lead
for the Johnnies.
"It was too bad we started
off slow," said forward Kevin
Hugoson. "We were real tight.
If we just could have taken
the lead for a little while we
might have done better. We
just couldn't quite get it (the
lead)."
The Royals came back to
close the gap to only one point,
mbb, see page 7
Tracksters
put in
the miles
by Rich Whybrew
The men's track team put in
a lot of miles last weekend—
in vans—as the squad trav-eled
to Kansas City, MO, for
the NAIA Indoor National
meet, and stopped in Iowa on
the way back to run at the
UNIDome Invitational at the
University of Northern Iowa.
Tom Plocker and Layne
LaFrombois were the only
Royals who had qualified for
the national meet on Feb. 25,
but other Royal runners,
jumpers, and throwers went
along to cheer them on and
then run in the second meet.
Neither of Bethel's national
qualifiers were able to ad-vance
beyond the preliminar-ies
of their events, but both
"ran well against super com-petition,"
according to head
coach Steve Whittaker.
Plocker ran the 600 yd dash
in 1:16, three seconds off his
fastest time in Kansas City,
despite not feeling well. "We
always eat at the Pioneer Grill
in Kansas City," said Plocker,
who made it to Nationals three
straight years. "It's a real
seedy place . . . I think I got
sick from something I ate
there," he said jokingly.
He said he felt better the
next day at UNI, when he ran
on Bethel's two mile relay
team that placed second in a
new school record of 7:54.5.
LaFrombois may also have
set a school record at UNI in
the 60 yd. dash finals, but the
automatic timing system
broke down. His unofficial time
was 6.3.
Lifters face weighty problem
by John Clark
Athletes always encounter
obstacles in the path to be-coming
the best they can in
whatever field they strive for
excellence in. Bethel's athletes
seem to have run into a rather
weighty problem in their ef-fort
to excel.
Specifically, that problem
has to do with the tight con-fines
of the Royal weightroom.
Due to the large demand for
use, the limited amount of
space and a lack of weights,
getting the necessary workout
has become difficult for ath-letes.
In order to complete a work-out,
an athlete might spend
two or three hours in the
weightroom waiting to use
weights or finding a space in
which to lift.
"It affects my day," said
Brian McKay, a tight end on
the football team. "If I'm
studying and it's crowded
when I finally get in, my work-out
is what's going to suffer.
If you can't get the workout
you need you'll never reach
your potential and your per-formance
will suffer."
McKay, who spent this par-ticular
day getting only half
his workout done during 90
minutes, also explained the
danger that exists when ath-letes
are handling weights in
limited space. The potential
for an accident is greatly en-hanced.
"It's all in the priority of the
school," said McKay of the
need for better conditions,
and it seems it's not athlet-ics.
If we want to improve we
need to put more emphasis on
athletics."
"It doesn't affect me, but it
affects others," said Rodger
Sullivan, a center on the foot-ball
team and a wrestler at
190 pounds. Sullivan requires
up to three hours to complete
his workout—a workout that
would take considerably less
time if there was more space.
"I've been in the weightroom
when it seems like 30 people
-are in there," said Sullivan.
"Sometimes I've had to wait
an hour just to start my work-out."
Conceded by all that the
weightroom is inadequate for
its growing needs, is it possi-ble
to increase the size of it
weights, see page 7
While some strain, others wait for a chance to pump their weights.
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Leo the Lion, also known unmasked as Ronna Pechacek, cheers for the basketball team from a high vantage.
Copeland/photo
Tickets total 200 in two weeks
The fine which accommpanies the ticket on the car window will bring the year's total past the current $2200.
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Mascot Leo the Lion
brings fans laughter
by JoAnn Watkins
"Little kids are scared of me
at first," said the Royal mas-cot,
Ronna Pechacek, "but
pretty soon they just hang on
me." Pechacek has worn the
outfit of "Leo the Lion" during
this year's basketball season.
Why does she dress in the
heavy costume and roam
about the gymnasium during
the games?
"I like to make people hap-py,"
she said. "It's fun to see
people's expressions." She
said it is an outlet that allows
her to do a lot of crazy things.
Pechacek does not practice
with the cheerleaders and on-ly
occasionally does a chant
with them. "I'd rather be up in
the audience with people mak-ing
them laugh," she said.
She was asked to be a mas-cot
by a cheerleader who
knew she had been a mascot
in high school. Dawn Lutton,
cheerleader advisor, said the
cheerleaders usually just con-tact
someone to be a mascot
for each sport that they think
might be interested. Lutton
said the cheerleaders raised
part of the money for the cos-tume,
purchased two years
ago. Part of the costume cost,
$325, was paid by the athletic
department and senate paid
half the cost.
"It's like doing an hour and
a half of aerobics," Pechacek
said. "You're just dripping wet
inside the costume."
Why does she continue to
be the mascot then?
"I get a satisfaction from
making people laugh," she
said. She said that when she
climbs up in the audio control
booth window about a third
of the spectators watch her
rather than the game.
"You use your arms to get
their attention and then you
can do what ever you want,"
said Pechacek. She said when
she sits in the booth window
some of her favorite things
are to pick up a hymnal and
sing or to just itch.
She directs the pep band,
shakes hands with the oppos-ing
coaches, goes up into the
crowd, gives people hugs, and
gets in the team huddles. "I go
down to the library," she said.
"It's funny because people will
really start laughing. They
don't expect to see a lion in
the library."
"It's a lot of memories,"
Pechacek said. "It's something
not everybody does."
parked as a registered member
of Bethel in a visitor's space,
or parked along the roadway,
sidewalks, or lawns of Bethel
College? Or is the car an ex-ecutor
of the well-renowned
"Bethel stop" at one of the
well-placed campus stop
signs?
If this is not the case, the
driver deserves commenda-tion.
If this is the case, the
driver probably deserves a
ticket and is likely to get one.
Almost 200 tickets were given
out during the last two weeks
of February.
"With the snow melting and
the yellow lines becoming
visible again, there is no ex-cuse
for illegal parking, so
recently we have been ticket-ing
more," said Tom Coun-tryman,
head of Bethel's sec-urity.
Countryman and five other
Bethel security guards give
out most of the tickets, yet
they are not alone. Some cam-pus
RD's give tickets, nurses
from the Health Center give
tickets to use on those who
park in their reserved spaces,
and certain off-campus RA's
or RD's give tickets to viola-tors
at Silvercrest or Foun-tain
Terrace.
Whoever writes the ticket,
one copy ends up under the
violator's windshield wiper
and the other copy finds its
way to P.E. 200, where Coun-tryman's
office is located.
"About ten percent of the
tickets will be paid here," said
Countryman. `Some tickets
are thrown out if the violator
is an unregistered visitor—
they just have to return the
ticket signed. A few further
tickets are thrown out because
of extenuating circumstances
surrounding the violations.
Most of the tickets are placed
in the Business Office for bill-ing;
next year all of the tickets
wil be paid this way," he said.
A typical ticket is five dol-lars
and if it is not paid within
seven days at P.E. 200, the
fine is normally doubled. Also,
unregistered violators who
are not visitors usually are
charged an additional six dol-lars
and twenty-five cents to
offset the two dollars the
school pays for every license
they check through the state.
The fine money is placed
into an account, which is used
for towing cars and checking
licenses. At the end of the
year the money goes into the
general account.
Last year the account held
$7900 at year end.
Currently it holds $2200, as
of the end of Jan,
by Mike Doran
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without special permit be-tween
Lake Valentine and the
AC building, in the special
area in the lot below Edgren
and Bodien, parked overnight
in the first two rows of the lot
across the street from the gym,
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Clarion
The Clarion is published weekly by Bethel
College students. Editorial opinions ore the
sole responsibility of those who write them.
Letters are welcome, and must be typewrit-ten,
signed, and delivered to the Clarion
office (LR1130 by 8 am. the Monday
before publication.
JaAnn Watkins/editor
Paul Davis/associate editor
Don Copeland/photography editor
Ginger Hope/copy editor
John Clark/sports editor
Neal Bernards/editorial assistant
Mike Doron/editorial assistant
Janis Johnson/editorial assistant
Lynnette Monter/editorial assistant
Pam Sundeen/business manager
Tammy Gregersen/ad soles
Brian S. Anderson/graphic editor
Barry Rinehart/cartoonist
Janet Ewing/columnist
Marty Stanchfield/columnist
John lilleberg/sports writer
Rich Whybrew/sports writer
Don Woodward/photographer
page 2
the Clarion . march 4, 1983
editorial
Responsibility needed • • • in voicing opinions
When I came to school Tuesday evening I stopped to read
the Beef Board. As I read I came to this letter:
To whomever claims responsibility for the Clarion,
The newspaper has proven itself to be nothing more than
scratchy toilet paper. Usually I throw it away without even
wasting my eyes on this shoddy journalism. However, last issue
unfortunately caught my attention. News flash—Bethel's Starting
Seniors ... Big article. Great, they deserve recognition. They
should probably be on first page. Did anyone on the staff ever take
the time to see how many seniors are on the team? I'll give you
hint—one more than four. Perhaps the writers have never been to a
game. Agreed, the games are overpriced and not played at a central
location, still maybe someone should show up sometime.
All sarcasm aside the article was a shame. To leave off a player
who has steadily contributed for four years is foolishness. Some
guy named John Clark attached his name to the masterpiece.
Maybe someone should ask for his resignation. Better yet, maybe
somebody could keep the paper out of my PO. Thanks, 2411
I reread it.
I claim responsibility for the Clarion as editor. My name is
on it. Who is responsible for the beef? Who is PO 2411?
As we worked on the design and layout for this issue,
several people brought it to my attention that the student
who was assigned PO 2411 is not at Bethel this semester. I
checked and they were right.
Just another joker. I read the letter once more. Whoever
wrote the letter was not joking. It struck me as ironic. It is
addressed to the person responsible for the Clarion. Who is
responsible for the letter?
Why is it so difficult for us to stand up for our opinions?
We all have a right to our own opinions. If we do not want
others to know what we think we keep our views to
ourselves. If we feel strongly enough about something we
ought to be able to take the praise or the criticism—which
ever is due. Why seek anonymity, as in this case, by using a
closed PO box number?
jo ann watkins
Editor's note to whoever claims responsibility for the beef:
As your letter stated, the article was Bethel starting seniors ...
There are four starting seniors. When I proofed the story I noticed
Rich Jaeger was not included. Looking at the purpose of the article
I saw it was about starting seniors, not a tribute to seniors. There
was no intent to omit a player from the story. Jaeger is named as a
senior in the basketball team article.
John Clark, the writer, does attend the games and I can not keep
the paper out of your PO when I do not know what it is.
Can't find that special
someone?
Describe your dream guy/gal
in an ad in the Clarion!
Ads due in three weeks!
See next week's Clarion for
more details
Dear Clarion,
I am writing in response to
Peter Thomas' letter in the
Feb. 18 issue.
Although his letter on our
society's treatment of homo-sexuals
was well intentioned,
I feel it necessary to respond
to his capitulation to our so-ciety's
prevailing moral stan-dards.
•
In the first place Thomas
falsely categorized homosex-uals
as another ethnic group
such as blacks, hispanics,
Jews and so forth. The only
thing that separates homosex-uals
from the rest of society is
their "sexual preference." This
"sexual preference" happens
to be sodomy. Webster defines
sodomy as; copulation with a
member of the same sex or
with an animal . . . noncoital
and especially anal and oral
copulation with a member of
the opposite sex. Therefore,
these unnatural sex acts en-compass
everything from a
seemingly innocent Bethel
date to dogs, cats, kangaroos,
assorted other creatures,
whips, chains, leather masks,
and things so bizarre that
they are indescribable on pa-per.,
,
The point I am trying to
make is that if we accept
homosexuality as the culture
norm, then we also must legal-ize
prostitution, sex with
children and child porno-graphy,
not because of its
rightness or wrongness, but
because of its acceptability. If
you think that I am exagger-ating
the depths to which our
moral standards can decay,
take a look at Holland or
Sweden, the latter in which it
is legal to divorce one's par-ents
at age 12.
As Christians we are not to
pass judgment on others be-cause
God sees sin as sin, not
on a scale from one to ten. But
in the New Testament church,
there was no room for the
individual who lived in sin. If
he did not repent he was
throWn out. Today, society is
asking us to accept something
we know is morally wrong.
A funny thing about our
society is that we become im-mune
to moral controversy
after a few injections of it. It
is this time of the year the
American male (myself in-cluded)
eagerly awaits with
sweaty palms the annual
Sports Illustrated swimsuit
issue. Had Christie Brinckley
frolicked across the Malibu
Three representatives of
Bethel's Student Association
will attend a national conven-tion
of the American Associa-tion
of Evangelical Students
(AAES) in Orlando, FL on
March 8- 10. The convention
draws 50-75 students from 40
Christian colleges across the
nation. Dennis Fuller, Marilyn
Eliason and Steve Goodwin
will represent Bethel.
"This is the major meeting
for policy of the AAES," said
Goodwin. "Bethel is heavily
involved in the AAES because
it was a founding member in
1960. G.W. Carlson, who was
a student at Bethel then,
helped to originate the pro-gram."
These three days will con-beach
in a spandex strapless
malliot the size of a handi-wipe
(and as porous) 50 years
ago she may very well have
been treated to a neck to an-kles
chastity belt, a full-fron-tal
lobotomy and a lifetime
membership to a home called
"The Enchanted Kingdom." In-deed
the pelvic gyrating antics
of_Elvis Presley that caused
such a stir during the 50's do
seem rather tame in compari-son
to Ozzy Osborne's pigeon
and bat swallowing stage
shows.
As Christians we can no
longer accept the standards
that society imposes on us. If
we do, our children or our
children's children may wake
up one day to a nation devoid
of moral standards and of
Christianity.
Mike Nelson
Class of '82
Clarification
In Figure 1 in the Feb. 25 issue,
the tuition for continuing stu-dents
should have been listed
as $4450, rather than $4550.
The stories on board costs and
financial aid do not appear in
this week's Clarion because
necessary information was not
available before press time. If
the costs are set, the article will
be printed next week.
BSA leders
attend national
AAES event
by Neal Bernards
Christians can not accept society's patterns
by Janet Ewing
I got another invitation to a Tupperware® party today.
I'm not going.
Frankly, I'm all tupped out.
Two weekends ago I was invited to a Tupperware party. I
went to one over interim. I went to one first semester. I don't
know how many I went to last year. Too many, I guess.
What is it about plastic bowls with lids that make people go
wild?
I used to jump at the chance to go to a Tupperware party.
They always have good refreshments. They have a lot of fun
prizes for their dumb games. And Tupperware is definitely a
high-quality product.
But I'm tupped out. I've seen it all. I've played all their dumb
games. (how many different words can you spell from Tup-perware,
in how many colors does Tupperware manufacture
refrigerator bowls, etc.)
Why do people hold these parties? To win prizes. I had one
friend call me up and tell me I had to come to her Tupperware
party because she wanted a wok. Explain to me why I should
sit through some dull sales pitch, and buy a new lettuce keeper
just so- she can get a ,wok..I don't get it.
Tupperware reminds me of mothers. I have no desire to
simulate the feeling of middle age by purchasing a lifetime
supply of Tupperware at the age of twenty-one.
If the motivation to hold these parties is greed, the motiva-tion
to attend is the same. If refreshments were not offered, I'll
bet that no one would go. I know I wouldn't. Forget this
garbage about fellowship. If they don't have cookies, no one
will be there.
I'll admit that I was enthusiastic about my first couple of
Tupperware parties. I was also enthusiastic about my first
Mary Kay party. I haven't been to any Amway or Shaklee
parties. I hope they don't exist.
I come from a family that will buy a tub of sherbet and eat it
all at one sitting if we need a new refrigerator bowl.
My father doesn't believe in margarine, but since living in an
apartment I have learned that margarine tubs make great
leftover holders.
Who are these fanatical disciples of the cult of Tupperware?
From what upper-middle class suburb did they emerge?
Yes, there is life without Tupperware.
I confess to owning a lettuce keeper, a small set of wonder-lier
bowls and a shaker. They were purchased back in the days
when I felt guilty attending a party, eating a handful of
cookies, and then not buying anything. Those days are gone.
A lot of Tupperware has passed under the bridge since
then.
I just can't handle the thought of another Tupperware party
right now.
There must be more to life.
,./ g,.., ! fl 4, z, 1-
MEAT
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march 4, 1983
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"Malcolm Muggridge" will
be shown Sunday, March 6 as
part of the Christian Film ser-ies
sponsored by the Campus
Coordinators. The film, which
is about Muggridge's life, will
begin at 8:30 p.m. in FA313. •• •
"Foundation" will perform
in concert on March 7, at 6 p.
m. in FA311. The group,
sponsored by the Bap Ast Stu-dent
Union, is from Carson
Newman Baptist College, in
Carson City, TN. Eight vocal-ists
and two sound techni-cians
form the group which
sings contemporary Chris-tian
music.
•• •
Don Larson, professor of
linguistics, will be a key
spokesman on the Boone and
Erickson WCCO radio show
on March 8, at 10 a.m. The
subject for discussion will be
language commmunication
and learning. Howard Hath-away,
a public school curric-ulum
coordinator in foreign
languages -, will be the fourth
discussant.
•• •
The Campus Coordinators
are selling tickets for the
DeGarmo and Key concert for
$5.50. The concert is at 7 p.m.,
March 12, at Wiley Hall at the
University of Minnesota.
•• •
"Rocky I, II, and lir will be
show in the gym on Friday,
March 11. The movies will
begin at 6 p.m. Cost is $2.50
for entrance at anytime dur-ing
the evening.
Entertainment between the
movies will be provided by
Bam-Bams Tumblers. They
are an adult group who travel
and 'present shows and the
Gospel message.
• • •
Campus Crusade for Christ
will be holding a volleyball
marathon to raise money for
those attending Operation
Sonshine '83. Individuals par-ticipating
will be seeking
sponsors to pledge an amount
for each game of volleyball
they play. The games will be
played March 13 from 1 to 8
p.m., in the gym. •• •
"Candida"—a delightful
comedy by George Bernard
Shaw—will be performed in
the round at Bethel College's
Fine Arts Theatre March 10-
12 and 15-19. Curtain time is
7:30 p.m., except for a 4 p.m.
matinee of Tuesday, March
15.
The drama centers on -the
woman Candida (played by
Kelli McNutt) who is loved
both by the poet Eugene
Marchbanks (Alan Nugent)
and by the preacher Rev. Mor-rell
(Robert Otto). This love
triangle forms a basis for look-ing
at the choices between
charisma or intellect, and pro-tection
or passion.
"Candida" is under the di-rection
of Susan Ogden-
Malouf, assistant professor of
theatre arts, assisted by senior
Scott Robertson.
•• •
Duo-pianists Barbara Brooks
and Mary Tomes will present
a faculty recital at Bethel Sem-inary
Chapel on Sunday,
March 13 at 3 p.m.
-Included in their program
are sonatas- of Mozart and
Poulenc and the "Fantasy" and
"Tarentella" by Rachmanin-off.
Barbara Brooks, instructor
in piano at Bethel and Maca-lester
colleges, is a pianist
with the Minnesota Dance
Company and organist at St.
James Lutheran Church in
Crystal. She holds a master in
music degree from the Uni-versity
of Michigan.
Mary Tomes holds a Bache-lor
of Arts in Music from
Augsburg College and works
in mental health counseling.
The conert if free and open
to all.
•• •
Cork Marcheschi is cur-rently
displaying his square
neon tubes of blue/pink, red/
yellow, and yellow/purple in
the Eugene Johnson Gallery
of Art. The display will be
held until March 11, .
by Bonnie Coleman
Three-hundred pounds of
hamburger, 380 pounds of
cheese, 75 gallons of ice cream,
1000 apples, 30 pounds of
sunflower seeds, 340 gallons
of milk and 270 dozen eggs.
Wait! Who's having the par-ty?
Has anxiety from the pre-spring
blues turned students
toward mass consumption?
No, but these are a few
items on the- Bethel food ser-vice
weekly order list, accord-ing
to Judy Helman, assistant
manager of the food service.
Items such as meat, cheese,
ice cream are delivered once a
week, while fresh produce and
bread come in every day. The
food service also makes their
own bread on Wednesdays.
"Most of the food- is con-sumed
too, not much is thrown
away," said Helman. "After
all these years in food service,
you know how much will be
used."
The coffee shop is one of
the main contributors to the
large volume of food con-sumed
by Bethel. The most
popular items are bagels,
sandwiches, ice cream and
pop.
One Wednesday's report
showed 115 plain bagels were
purchased, 20 haraand cheese •
bagels, 135 blueberry and
bran muffins, 173 scoops if
ice cream, 55 1/4-pound ham-burgers,
45 patty melts, 127
ham sandwiches, 153 orders
of fries, 100 Grandma
cookies, 204 pieces of fruit
and 865 cups of pop. Diet
Pepsi is the biggest seller.
"Mondays and Tuesdays
are the peak days," said Linda
Erickson, manager of the cof-fee
shop. "The Bethel crowd is
very unpredictable. Students
are influenced by what the
person ahead of them orders."
Heiman finds the cafeteria
AAES, see page 6
Bethelites favor pop, bagels, fries
newsbriefs
Item 12
page 4 the Clarion march,4, 1983
Twenty-one reasons to attend Bethel...
by Neal Bernards
Were you lured to Bethel by
positive brochures that hinted
at a Christian Utopia? Are
you sick of seeing all of Beth-el's
publications turn into
propaganda? Well this is the
article for you. The following
is a list of both the good and
bad of Bethel College—the
way a prospectus should look.
1. People
"Bethel is beautiful because
everyone's a Christian and
we love each other and we're
one big happy family and that
means we're blessed." Cliche.
However, the general state-ment
is true: students and
faculty at Bethel are caring
because of their common corn-mitment
to Christ. Even
though your roommates grunt
at you in the early morning
they really are concerned. The
friendships started here will
last a lifetime.
Item 2
2. Campus
Bethel's wooded plot of land
is perfect for strolling when
you're down about life. If pa-pers
and finals ever depress
you, just walk on the path
around the lake and let nature
be your remedy.
3. Chapel (see also #3 on the
bad list)
Chapel is a great forum to
hear good speakers if you hit
the right days. Topics rang-ing
from missions to politics
to alternative lifestyles are
discussed. Chapel may inter-rupt
your intense study sche-dule
but it's often worth it.
4. The Coffee Shop (see also
#4 on the bad list)
Grab a bowl of ice cream or
a cup of french fries and ex-change
social pleasantries for
an hour. The prices are reason-able,
the decor simple, and
the food is a change from the
cafeteria. It adds meaning to
the ten minute break in your
G mod class. The atmosphere
is superb for anything but
studying, making it a haven
for procrastinators and "beau-tiful
people."
5. The Royal Oak Room
The Coffee Shop's alter ego.
A nice escape from worries
inside the Bethel campus. The
price is right and the enter-tainment
good, even consid-ering
the appearance of John-ny
Cupid and the Lovetones.
6. Keith Tekautz
You know him, but you
don't know him. He's the cus-todian
with a perpetual high
on life. Everyone has heard
his boisterous greetings echo-ing
through the halls. Even in
the worst of moods you can't
help but smile.
7. Bethel's size
We've all heard horror sto-ries
of the monstrous classes
at the U of M. Instead of
classes with 150 students we
have classes of 25, allowing
for optimum interaction be-tween
teachers and students.
However, this could be a
drawback if you intended to
slide through a course.
8. Extra-curricular activities
This relates to Bethel's size
because everyone has an op-portunity
to become involved.
Crowds don't form for posi-tions
in student senate, mis-sions,
sports, publications,
music, drama, speech, Wel-come
Week, or political or-ganizations;
therefore giving
everyone an equal chance.
They let me write for the Clar-ion,
it can't be too tough.
9. Variety of people
Bethel ranks second only to
Carleton in percentage of stu-dents
from outside of Minne-sota.
This allows for a vast
array of insights and opin-ions
in class discussions.
More importantly, you can go
home with friends from Cali-fornia
or Florida over spring
break. However, it can be a
problem if you live in New
York and your boyfriend/girl-friend
is from Montana.
10. Housing
This may be a point of dis-agreement,
but I think Bethel's
housing is more than ade-quate.
Few other college stu-dents
have the luxury of
choosing between town-houses
and apartments. Our
housing is clean and new,
unlike some 100-year-old col-leges
that have 60-year-old
dorms. And if Bethel's apart-ments
are too expensive, there
are many alternatives in the
area.
11. Doc's corner
A quaint place to study,
socialize, or just enjoy a 7c
cup of coffee. The cookies are
great too.
12. Lake Valentine
Some call it Mudhole Val-entine,
but it does add a touch
of nature in metropolitan Ar-den
Hills. Sem Hill and the
dock are popular places when
the warmth of spring arrives.
The lake is used for canoing,
skating, and cross-country
skiing. It's true resources re-main
untapped however. Pub-licity
could be garnered by
staging the world's largest
broomball game or by spon-soririg
the Lake Valentine Re-lays,
where the first male-female
team to swim across,
the lake and back without
sinking in the mud, getting
caught in the weeds, or being
attacked by Canadian geese
wins.
Item 14
13. Connected buildings
Though they create a high-school
like atmosphere, the
tunnels and skyways keep us
from the nasty elements. Since
everyone is confined to four
buildings you get to see your
favorite people more often,
but this can be detrimental to
the hunted male during Nik
Dag. Also, the connected
buildings don't allow for an
excuse when late to class; you
can get anywhere in five min-utes.
14. IM sports
Former, part-time, and
weekend jocks can find their
outlet in intra-mural sports.
Broomball especially allows
for ventilation of frustrations,
if not destruction of kneecaps.
15. Meandering brook and
bridge
Only residents of Edgren
and Bodien can truly appre-ciate
the complexities of this
little aquatic world. Though
the creek is often dirt brown
and three inches deep, a
change in seasons can be
gaged by subtle differences in
these norms. And will any
sophomore forget the notor-ious
Nelson vs. Edgren/Bodien
snowball fight over posses-sion
of our beloved bridge?
Someone ought to name it.
16. Rollerskating
If you can't dance, you
might as well rollerskate. The
crowded conditions must say
something for this activity.
17. Monte Cristo's
I'm not on the meal plan so I.
haven't had this delicious
sandwich for a year, but my
mouth still waters at the
thought of its crunchy golden-brown
exterior. Especially
good with a touch of jam. .
18. The Clarion
That's supposed to be fun-ny,
o.k.?
19. Location
Bethel is located within 15
miles of seven colleges and
universities, making it possi-ble
to attend numerous sport-ing
events and cultural activi-ties.
To some students Min-neapolis/
St. Paul may not be
a metropolis, but it beats try-ing
to find something to do in
Northfield or St. Peter on a
Saturday night.
20. Interim
Few schools will give you
credit for traveling across
Europe or Mexico for a month.
Even if you stay at school it's
enjoyable because of the laid-back
atmosphere. You can
catch up on sleep or hobbies
that you forsook for studying
fall semester. And if you didn't
study fall semester, you can
try to raise your GPA during
interim.
21. Nik Dag
This Bethel tradition has
been a favorite for years. De-spite
quivering males and
scorned females Nik Dag has
remained a success. Every
year a complaint appears on
the Beefboard requesting a
ban on this activity, and every
year it is ignored. Without
this female-initiated occasion
Bethel's dating scene would
be cut in half. Besides, when
else could you see John Zdrazil
posing partially clad for the
student body in chapel?
Item 9
Item 1
Item 7
march 4, 1983 the Clarion page 5
.. ,and twenty-one reasons not to
1. Bethel Drive
Every morning brings a new
adventure to the student who
has to traverse this rutted
road on his way to wisdom. If
you're not awake when you
get on the bus you are by the
time you grind to halt at the
front steps. The trip is like a
runaway-wagon ride down
a bumpy hill. The gravel
recently spread over the holes
helped slightly, though it's the
same as putting a band-aid on
a chainsaw wound.
2. Sports facilities
The quality of athletes here
is amazing considering what
Bethel offers in athletic are-nas.
The football/soccer/base-ball
field is often muddy or
barren. The Robertson Gym-nasium/
auditorium/field-house
is overworked and
small. And the weight room
has a capacity of ten active
members. The fieldhouse will
be a great addition, when it's
built. It will be even better if
they find money to add a floor
to the structure. We know
that Bethel stresses Christian-ity
and academics over sports,
but our athletes need a chance
to become competitive in all
sports. To do that better facil-ities
are needed.
3. Chapel
Be thankful chapel is not
mandatory. Though some are
stimulating, many are tedious,
making you wish you'd stayed
in bed. Some are bad enough
to make you want to go to
11:10 class.
4. The Coffee Shop during
peak hours
The crush between after-noon
classes is reminiscient
of crowded Tokyo subways.
As is typical in any hallway,
a group of five students al-ways
seem to gather in the
busiest spot, blocking passage
on either side. Rumors that
traffic lights will be installed
have proven false.
5. The LRC
For those not fluent in
Bethelise; the library. The
books are fine, but the atmos-phere
resembles a high school
cafeteria more than a place of
study. At -the U of M you
would be tossed out on your
backpack at the slightest pro-vocation.
Another major an-noyance
is the incessant buzz
of the lights. Either Bethel has
taken up beekeeping or some
psychologist is experimenting
on how long it takes to drive
an entire student body mad.
6. Brushaber's inauguration
Some suggested that this
be under the good heading,
but they were overruled. See-ing
the dignitaries was great,
but a 50 minute speech. Come
on, the average American has
a ten minute attention span.
Watching the choir shift rest-lessly
in the background was
a painful experience.
7. Bus system
The system is run as effi-ciently
as possible, but just
the thought of riding a bus
conjures up negative images.
Also, waiting 30 minutes for a
bus on Friday afternoon seems
an eternity.
8. Parking lots
Either limit the use of cars
on campus or pave the semi-nary.
More unjust parking
tickets have been given be-cause
of inadequate space
than any other violations.
Which leads to the next
point .. .
9. RAP
Our security force, the Roy-al
Auto Patrol. Rules are nec-essary,
but let us know what
they are. Be consistent. Sit in
the cafeteria at mealtime and
count how many cars roll
through the stop sign in front
of Edgren. Either enforce the
sign or get rid of it.
10. Validation
Legend has it that is used to
be worse, I pity them.
11. III-designed writing desks
Not the big ceramic desks
or the brown flexible ones,
but the multi-colored ones
that are uncomfortable no
matter how you sit. The desk
part is too small and the seat
angled to exactly the wrong
position for anything. If you
blow a test, blame it on the
desk.
12. Lack of an auditorium
The theatre is suffocatingly
small and the Robertson PE
center cavernously large. No
production can be truly en-joyed
in either setting. Some-thing
like FA 313 about five
times larger would be perfect,
but money at Bethel is tight
like everywhere else.
13. Book buy back
Confining a line of 30 bored
people to a four foot wide hall-way
is not prudent. After an
hour of getting stepped on by
students checking their P.O.'s
you're ready to explode, es-pecially
when somebody says
your $25 biology book is now
worth $6.
14. Dorm bathrooms
If the cleaner is not a neu-rotic
health nut, odors of un-known
origins quickly devel-op.
Women's bathrooms may
be different, but our bathroom
had fungi never seen by man
growing on the shower cur-tains.
A little grime is expect-ed
with 24 people using the
same facility. It makes you
appreciate mom's sparkling
porcelain.
15. Upperclass dorms
There are none, thus creat-ing
a problem. Many upper-classmen
want to live on cam-pus,
but not in a townhouse.
The comraderie of a dorm
makes apartment and town-house
living feel like solitary
confinement. The only way to
get back in a dorm after fresh-man
year is by being an RA,
something few can do.
16. Heating
You climb out of a cozy bed
for your 8 o'clock class to be
hit by the harsh reality that
it's 60 degrees in the class-room
and your bare forearm
is frozen to the table. You
thaw over hearty lunch and
amble off to your 12:10 class.
There the heat is overwhelm-ing
so your body decides it's
time for a nap. You can't win.
Like Minnesota, it's either
summer or winter, with very
little in between.
17. Isolation
Bethel students are pain-stakingly
unaware of the
world around them. Few look
beyond their tests and papers
to see world problems that
need political and social ac-tion.
Most college campuses
have this problem, but we
should try to be different.
Everyone agrees that there is
a problem, but little is done.
The poor attendance at Arlan
Erdahl's convocation is evi-dence
of this,,, -
18. Intro to Bible
Requiring three Bible
classes is a good idea, but
Intro turned many students
off to Bible study, They dread
having to take a second reli-gion
class and are surprised
to find that it can be fun.
19. The view from Fountain
Terrace apartments facing
east
A pine tree and 35W. Exhil-irating?
Motivating? Inspir-ing?
No. Loud? Yes.
Item 20
20. Bethel's logo
What is it? Most college
emblems are identifiable, like
an animal or mascot. Ours
looks like a twisted paper
clip. Along the line of school
identity is the lack of a fight
song. We have no rallying
song to raise spirits, even
something silly like St. Olaf's
"Um ya ya" song would be
good.
21. Vacation
This is trivial, but so is
everything else on the list.
Compared to state schools we
get little vacation. Thanksgiv-ing,
Christmas, Spring Break,
and Good Friday. That's it. At
least we're getting our mon-ey's
worth.
If your list of loves and
hates is vastly different, write
it up and send it into the Clar-ion.
It may get printed. You'll
be surprised how hard it is to
come up with negative com-ments
and how the easy ones
flow. That's probably why
you didn't transfer to the U.
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Writing Center sails
in a sea of language
Pinned to a small cork bul-letin
board inside The Writ-ing
Center, a room on the
second floor of the AC build-ing,
is a small note. It reads: -
YOU'VE HEARD THIS
SONG BEFORE
1. What is this thing called
love?
2. What is this thing called?
Love?
3. What is this thing called?
Love.
4. What is this thing called?
Love!
5. What! Is this thing called
love?
6. What? Is this thing called
love?
7. What is this thing called,
love?
8. "What is this thing?" called
Love?
9. "What is this, Thing?"
called Love.
10. "What is this?"
"Thing called love."
This note shows a basic
concept: language is fluid. A
small change in a sentence
can change its entire mean-ing.
In this sea of fluid lan-guage,
finding precise mean-ing
is sometimes a difficult
task—especially with a dead-line
to meet and deep subject
matter.
food, from page 3
a little more predictable than
the coffee shop. "You learn
student routines," Helman
said. We can't predict as eas-ily
the amount of food to pur-chase
at the beginning, or the
end of the year or during
interim."
The breakfast population
slows down about the fourth
week of school while the Wed-nesday
lunch increases. "We
get about 600 to 1000 people
through for lunch, it works
into people's schedules more,"
Helman said. "The weekends
are slow because people go
home and out to eat."
The hotdishes, salad and
sandwich bar are the most
Bethel's Writing Center of-fers
assistance in the confused
sea of language. By person-ally
assisting writers in the
process of composing their pa-pers,
the ten Writing Center
tutors hope to improve the
marginal writer to compe-tence,
the competent writer to
excellence, and the excellent
writer to superiority. Even
superior writers can benefit
from having tutors in the Writ-ing
Center act as sounding
boards to their writing.
Writing Center tutors try to
be more than a proofreading
service, they attempt to help
students help themselves.
They attempt to offer con-structive
criticism from their
experience. which the writer
can accept or reject.
The Writing Center is open
Mon. through Fri. between
eleven a.m. and five p.m. It
closes for dinner, then re-opens
between 7 p.m. and 10
p.m.
Dr. Lynn Fauth of the Lan-guage
and Literature Dept.
coordinates a mostly veteran
Writing Center staff. Each
staff member's hours are post-ed
outside The Writing Cen-ter's
door.
popular in the cafeteria. "Hot-dishes
are fresh and are for
those who want to fill up on
something cheap," said Hel-man.
"We also added a new
diet menu for those who are
watching their weight."
Both Helman and Erickson
try to add new items to their
menus as much as possible. A
diet menu was added to the
cafeteria 'selection as well as
periodit !monotony-breakers
that consist of a popular food
from a different country. The
coffeeshop sometimes puts
out samples of new items to
test. student reaction.
"I think Bethel has very
good food compared to some
other schools I've been to,"
said Helman, "and the staff
tries hard here for the school."
A special guest will be Pres-ident
Ronald Reagan who will
address the convention on
Tuesday evening.
The AAES receives guid-ance
from the National Asso-ciation
of Evangelicals (NAE),
formerly headed by Carl
Lundquist. "This year we're
going to ask for more support
from the NAE," said Good-win.
"We get advice from them
but no financial aid." Each
member school pays a $125
annual due to finance AAES
functions.
Airfare and hotel accom-modations
cost for the trip
will come out of the Student
Association travel budget.
The group will spend seven
days in Orlando instead of
four because of flight arran-gements.
"It's cheaper for us
to go for a week than just four
days because mid=week
flights are expensive. We'll
actually be saving money by
staying longer," said Good-win.
"The expense is justifia-ble
because of benefits stu-dents
will receive from better
leadership. New ideas from
the convention will help the
entire student body."
AAES, from page 2
sist of workshops led by evan-gelicals
such as former mem-ber
of the Nixon administra-tion
and now leader for prison
reform, Charles Colson; leader
of the Moral Majority, Jerry
Falwell; internationally-known
evangelist Leighton
Ford and author Rebecca
Manley Pippert. Along with
over 60 others they comprise
the personnel gathered to
spread enthusiasm for shar-ing
Christ wherever the evan-gelical
calls their "world."
Goodwin plans to run for
national president of the
AAES if the current leader
resigns. "It's a two-year office
and the president has indi-cated
that he will step down
after one year," said Good-win.
"Previously he was vice-president.
He took over when
the other president resigned."
Goodwin can become presi-dent
because he will attend
seminary next year, still qual-ifying
as an evangelical stu-dent.
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Playoffs put off by power points
by Rich Whybrew
The state playoff hopes of
the women's basketball team
were dashed Feb. 21 as a
result of a 67-55 loss to St.
Olaf and the power point rat-ing
system.
Head coach Vonda Bjork-lund
said her team knew it
was a "must win" situation
against St. Olaf if the Royals
wanted to go to the playoffs,
but tried to keep the players
from putting too much pres-sure
on themselves. "We tried
to go into the game not think-ing
of it as a pressure game,"
she said. "We didn't concen-trate
on winning as much as
mbb, from page 8
23-22, but no sooner would
Bethel come close to catching
the elusive carrot that was
the lead the Johnnies would
pull it away.
It was the type of scene that
was to be repeated more than
once throughout the contest.
"Our guys never gave up,"
said Coach George Palke in
the subdued Royal lockerroom
after the game. "They gave it
all they had. 19
Jeff Blumer powers up a shot dur-ing
the Royals rout.
Copeland/photo
MIAC All-Conference
Brian lunmann Augsburg 6-1 So.
Dave Meslow Augsburg 6-6 Sr.
Bill Lawson Bettie( 6.1 Sr.
Jason Velgersdyk Bethel 6-8 Sr.
Garret Byrne Concordia 7-0 Sr.
Ricky Simpson Concordia 6-1 Sr.
Mark Hanson Gustavus 6-6 Sr.
Terry Brehn St Marys 6-4 Sr.
John Mellott St John's 6-5 Sr.
Tin Dillon St Thomas 6-3 Sr.
Ward Prine St Olaf 6-5 Fr.
Honorable Mention
Mike Hanley Bethel 6-1 Sr.
Dwayne Nordstrom Bethel 6-7 Sr.
Dion Wolter Bethel 6-7 Jr.
Jon Eide Concordia 6-7 Sr.
Kerry Nelson Concordia 6-5 Sr.
John Blew Gustavus 6-2 Sr.
Barry O'Neil Gustavus 64 Fr.
Brian Buggs Hamline 5-9 So.
Roger Stieple Hamline 6-3 Jr.
Willie Green St Mary's 5-10 So.
Trevor Burzorg St John's 6-1 Jr
John Goodrich
Sean Higgins
Rahn Hagberg
St John's
St Thomas
St Olaf
6-4
6-4
6-6
Sr.
Sr
Jr.
we concentrated on playing
well."
Three Royal players ac-counted
for all but nine of
Bethel's points, as Kim Chris-tenson
scored 21, Sharon
Huisinga had 14, and Karen
Almeroth put in 11.
The loss put the Royals
down on the power point sys-tem
far enough so St. Mary's,
whom the Royals beat during
the season 74-64, qualified for
the state playoffs. They were
.15 of a power point ahead of
Bethel in the system, which
Bjorklund explained uses the
won-loss record of a team and
its opponents to determine
how strong it is.
And they gave it more than
once.
Starting the second half
with a 39-31 lead St. fohn's
padded that margin into a 15-
point spread and it appeared
that Bethel was headed for
embarrassment. But the Roy-als
came back and with over
11 minutes to play had whit-tled
the lead to only five
points.
However, St. John's moved
back into a more comfortable
lead once again. But again
Bethel worked the margin
down to finally two points as
Mike Hanley hit a shot with
3:11 on the clock.
The Johnnies then began to
ice away the clock by stalling
forcing Bethel to foul. St.
John's made 10 of 11 free
throws in those final minutes
to account for the final margin.
"They played real good de-fense
and took away the
things we wanted to do," ex-plained
Palke. "We couldn't
get the ball inside and we
didn't get the fastbreak going
consistently."
One key said Palke was the
difference between the • two
teams at the free throw line.
St. John's made 27 of 38 foul
shots while Bethel made only
17 of 31 of its charity tosses.
"There's a million things in
a game like this that you can
look at and wish you could
change," he said.
"It's fun to get to this point,"
said Hugoson. "But you sure
would like to go farther. You
have to accept that it must be
the way it was meant to be.
We gave it our all."
"This is the third year in a
row Bethel has lost out on the
power point system," said
Bjorklund. "Our only conso-lation
is that it won't be in use
next year because we'll be
trying to qualify for the
NCAA playoffs, which is
harder."
It appears that all but one
of the members of this year's
team will be back to try quali-fying
for the NCAA playoffs,
as there were no seniors on
the team. Huisinga is the only
Royal who will not return,
since she will go to Germany
next year to finish work on
her major.
Dion Wolter led the Bethel
scorers hitting 22 points on
the night while staking out
his own territory at the foul
line. Wolter attempted 18 free
throws and made 12. Bill Law-son
hit for 13 points and
handed out nine assists.
ROYAL ROUSINGS—Despite the season ending
on a losing note it was a very successful season for the
Royals . . . Bethel was the only team to have five players
named All-Conference or Honorable Mention . . . Three
players (Dion Wolter, Bill Lawson and Jason Velgersdyk)
received player of the week honors for the MIAC . . . Law-son
and Velgersdyk led the league in assists and rebounding
and Wolter led in shooting percentage . . . In winning 17
games Bethel came one game away from tying the school
record.
weights, from page 8
and if so is it too expensive in
these days of budget cuts?
"I think it's in a poor posi-tion,"
said Athletic Director
George Henry of the weight-room
"and I realize that if it
was twice as big it still
wouldn't be big enough."
However, Henry said that
this current budget is ex-hausted
and he would be hard-pressed
to ask for more money
when the school is cutting
$1.2 'million from its budget.
And with the new weightroom
part of the phase II plans for
the fieldhouse, it is hard to
predict when that will become
a reality until phase I is com-pleted.
Henry did point out that
the current weightroom is
much better than what pre-viously
existed. Carpeting
was laid and the walls painted
and the room extended into
the wrestling room slightly to
make for a better facility.
events
That, however, was three
years ago and the weight-room's
use has grown consid-erably.
One possibility raised for
increasing space was knock-ing
out the west wall of the
room which only has dirt on
the other side. Unfortunately,
it sounds much simpler than
it really is.
According to Jim Woods,
director of the physical plant,
the wall is a poured concrete
supporting wall and would
require quite a bit of work
and money to acquire only a
small amount of space. Woods
said it could be done but it
was not practical. If the mon-ey
was available, it might be
better to build an entire struc-ture
above ground.
Some athletes, in order to
get their required workout,
have chosen to spend money
from their own pocket to
secure a membership at a fit-ness
club. It seems this might
be the only solution given the
current situation financially.
But as always a solution-less
problem has arisen that,
in this case, the athletes who
can't afford to go elsewhere
will have to learn to live with.
Friday, March 4
CC—Skating, Saint's 12-2 am.
WR—NAJA Nationals, Minor, SD
Saturday, March 5
WT—at St. Olaf
WTR—at Mocolester
MTR—St. John's Invitational
ISA Banquet, Gym, 6:30 pm.
Sunday, March 6
Bethel Choir Handel's "Messiah," Orchestra Hall,
3:00 pm.
Christian Film Series—"Malcolm Muggridge," FA313,
8:30 pm.
Monday, Mardi 7
Chapel—Rev. Cal Swanson, Argentina
Student Senate Meeting, FA 426, 5:15 pm.
B.S.U. concert—"Foundation," FA 311, 6 pm.
Tuesday, March 8
Chapel—Marilyn Bohne, Korea
Wednesday, March 9
Chapel—Hiphong Truong, Laos
Thursday, March 10
Chapel—Inter-Varsity Christian Fellavvship Films,
Hinduism/Buddhism
Theatre Production—"Candida," 7:30 pm.
Friday, March 11
Chapel—Student Chapel
Theatre Production—"Candida," 7:30 pm.
W1R—Ole Open at St. Olaf
CC—Movies: Rocky 1,11,111, $2.50, Gym, 6 pm.
Saturday, March 12
DeGarmo & Key Concert, Wiley Hall, U of M, 7 pm.
MTR—MAC Indoor at St. Thomas
Theatre Production—"Candida," 7:30 pm.
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Bethel Tommie-gunners Kevin Hugoson (left) and Dion Wolter shot away during the Royals 98-83 trouncing
fo St. Thomas. The runaway win forced the playoff against St. John's to determine the MIAC's final playoff
berth. Copeland/photo Royal roundballers knocked off
page 8
ihe Clarion march 4, 1983
sports
Women
race to
PR's
by Rich Whybrew
The women's track team
earned a few places and many
personal records in a five-team
meet at St. Thomas Sat-urday,
Feb. 26.
Linda Channer, the All-Am-erican
cross-country runner,
set a new indoor school record
in the 1500-meter run. Her
time of 4:47.6 for third place
was a personal record, and is
only four seconds slower than
the qualifiying standard for
outdoor nationals in May.
Another notable PR was
that of Jenny Burgess in the
55 meter low hurdles. She ran
9.2 for second place, leading a
Royal charge that saw Laurie
Staurseth and Kris Hartzell
take third and fifth, respec-tively,
in the same event.
Hartzell cleared 4'10" in the
high jump to tie for fifth, and
Burgess, Staurseth, Terri
Thompson and Kendra French
ran on the 1600 meter relay
team that took third in 4:28.5.
Penny Marshall continued her
steady performance in the
shot put, taking third with a
throw of 35'6".
Head coach Cindy Book
mentioned other outstanding
PR's by Carla Tromanek in
the high jump, Rachel Urban
in the 1500 meters, and Jan
Albright in the 800 meters.
"We set goals for the meet,
and everyone was just up for
it," said Book of the avalanche
of PR's.
by John Clark
Although no one can claim
the Royals ever gave up,
Bethel couldn't fill the holes it
continually dug for itself in
losing the second place playoff
gaMe to St. John's 85-71 on
Mar. 2 at St. Thomas.
The playoff game was nec-essitated
by the second place
tie the two teams found them-selves
in after the regular sea-son
had ended. With the tie-breaking
criteria the league
had set up unable to break the
tie, the league commission de-cided
to have the two schools
decide the matter on the court.
Emotions ran high on both
sides of St. Thomas' gym,
Final MIAC standings
Conference Overall
W L Pct. W L Pct.
Concordia 14 4 .778 17 8 .680
Bethel 12 6 .667 17 10 .630
St. John's 12 6 .667 15 11 .577
Augsburg* 12 6 .667 18 8 .692
St. Thomas 10 8 .556 13 13 .500
Macalester 8 10 .444 10 14 .417
Gustavus 7 11 .389 7 15 .304
Hamline 7 11 .389 9 16 .360
St. Mary's 5 13 278 8 18 308
St. Olaf 3 15 .167 4 21 .160
* on probation, ineligible for playoffs.
which was chosen as the neu-tral
site for the game. One
would have a difficult time
deciding whether the fans or
the players were more fired
up for the game that would
decide which team would go
on to face the University of
Minnesota-Duluth in the
NAIA Division 13 playoffs.
Bethel scored the first bas-ket
of the game but it would
be the only time the Royals
would ever lead again. St.
John's defense set up a run of
10 straight points that even-tually
turned into a 18-8 lead
for the Johnnies.
"It was too bad we started
off slow," said forward Kevin
Hugoson. "We were real tight.
If we just could have taken
the lead for a little while we
might have done better. We
just couldn't quite get it (the
lead)."
The Royals came back to
close the gap to only one point,
mbb, see page 7
Tracksters
put in
the miles
by Rich Whybrew
The men's track team put in
a lot of miles last weekend—
in vans—as the squad trav-eled
to Kansas City, MO, for
the NAIA Indoor National
meet, and stopped in Iowa on
the way back to run at the
UNIDome Invitational at the
University of Northern Iowa.
Tom Plocker and Layne
LaFrombois were the only
Royals who had qualified for
the national meet on Feb. 25,
but other Royal runners,
jumpers, and throwers went
along to cheer them on and
then run in the second meet.
Neither of Bethel's national
qualifiers were able to ad-vance
beyond the preliminar-ies
of their events, but both
"ran well against super com-petition,"
according to head
coach Steve Whittaker.
Plocker ran the 600 yd dash
in 1:16, three seconds off his
fastest time in Kansas City,
despite not feeling well. "We
always eat at the Pioneer Grill
in Kansas City," said Plocker,
who made it to Nationals three
straight years. "It's a real
seedy place . . . I think I got
sick from something I ate
there," he said jokingly.
He said he felt better the
next day at UNI, when he ran
on Bethel's two mile relay
team that placed second in a
new school record of 7:54.5.
LaFrombois may also have
set a school record at UNI in
the 60 yd. dash finals, but the
automatic timing system
broke down. His unofficial time
was 6.3.
Lifters face weighty problem
by John Clark
Athletes always encounter
obstacles in the path to be-coming
the best they can in
whatever field they strive for
excellence in. Bethel's athletes
seem to have run into a rather
weighty problem in their ef-fort
to excel.
Specifically, that problem
has to do with the tight con-fines
of the Royal weightroom.
Due to the large demand for
use, the limited amount of
space and a lack of weights,
getting the necessary workout
has become difficult for ath-letes.
In order to complete a work-out,
an athlete might spend
two or three hours in the
weightroom waiting to use
weights or finding a space in
which to lift.
"It affects my day," said
Brian McKay, a tight end on
the football team. "If I'm
studying and it's crowded
when I finally get in, my work-out
is what's going to suffer.
If you can't get the workout
you need you'll never reach
your potential and your per-formance
will suffer."
McKay, who spent this par-ticular
day getting only half
his workout done during 90
minutes, also explained the
danger that exists when ath-letes
are handling weights in
limited space. The potential
for an accident is greatly en-hanced.
"It's all in the priority of the
school," said McKay of the
need for better conditions,
and it seems it's not athlet-ics.
If we want to improve we
need to put more emphasis on
athletics."
"It doesn't affect me, but it
affects others," said Rodger
Sullivan, a center on the foot-ball
team and a wrestler at
190 pounds. Sullivan requires
up to three hours to complete
his workout—a workout that
would take considerably less
time if there was more space.
"I've been in the weightroom
when it seems like 30 people
-are in there," said Sullivan.
"Sometimes I've had to wait
an hour just to start my work-out."
Conceded by all that the
weightroom is inadequate for
its growing needs, is it possi-ble
to increase the size of it
weights, see page 7
While some strain, others wait for a chance to pump their weights.
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